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sim

/sɪm/noun, verb

sim is spelled S-I-M: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sim means “Clipping of simulator” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sim is sims.

How many letters and syllables are in sim?

Letters3: S-I-M
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is sim?

Sim appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce sim?

  • /sɪm/

Sim has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-SIM.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sim.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with sim?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sim.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ism.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of sim

  • sims plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • simming participle, present
  • simmed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does sim mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    informalClipping of simulator.

    They played a flight sim all afternoon.

  2. 2

    informalClipping of simulation.

  3. 3

    informalA simulation session or scenario.

noun

as SIM
  1. 1

    Clipping of simulation.

  2. 2

    Clipping of SIM card

  3. 3

    Acronym of social influence marketing.

  4. 4

    Acronym of Subscriber Identity Module.

  5. 5

    Acronym of scanning ion microscope.

  6. 6

    Acronym of search of the index map.

  7. 7

    Initialism of security information management.

noun

as Sim
  1. 1

    A Simeonite (follower of Charles Simeon).

  2. 2

    A person with Methodist tendencies.

  3. 3

    Any of the characters in the video game The Sims, which simulates aspects of a human social environment.

  4. 4

    derogatorySomeone who is, or is accused of, acting like a bumbling fool.

    Near-synonym: NPC

verb

  1. 1

    informalClipping of simulate.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does sim come from?

From the title of The Sims, which most likely came from a clipping of simulation, as The Sims, SimCity, and related franchises are simulation games; compare sim (“simulator, simulation”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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